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I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
I re-worked last week's post as a piece for the Guardian. You can read it here - and do please comment if you feel you would like to continue the discussion. There are currently 19 comments, most of which more
Today's lesson (which I reflect upon across the jump) comes in the shape of a substantial quote from a Times interview by Libby Purves (£) last week with the director of the National Theatre Nick Hytner. Talking of more
As part of the Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television research project which I am co-ordinating with Dr Amanda Wrigley at the University of Westminster, I have curated a BFI Southbank season of television adaptations more
Network's new double DVD set from the 1960s ABC TV arts series Tempo is, as I posted last week, a wonderful collection of archival jewels. After last week's introduction, I intend to post over more
Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more
Richard II, David Tennant, Greg Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company, from 10 October. PS. Just seen that for fans of this production @EffieSian has come up with the hashtag #R2DT - genius! That's in addition to @TheRSC more
Why is the work of one of our greatest filmmakers - the director Alan Clarke - all but invisible? This is not a new question. Nor do I have anything original by way of an answer. But the issue is much more
So here's my beef. I have booked a ticket for tonight at the ever-excellent Clapham Picturehouse to watch the current Royal Opera House production of La bohème. This is being shown in - as you can see from more
A number of reviews have appeared in the past few weeks of two recent projects from Illuminations: the Royal Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar on DVD (above) and The Sonnets by William Shakespeare, our collaboration with Touch more